Patch Management Add the ability to configure software update tasks to install ASAP after the scheduled install time. Currently, if a computer misses the schedule, it will not run  / receive the update. If the schedule is 2 a.m. and the computer is always offline during this time, the computer will never receive the patch. Cheers, Peter

It would be nice with a function to send out urgent messege to all computers from NS or deployment. För example when you need to push out a message that say that is some sort of problem, who the users need to know about maybe logout or that the e-mail server is down.

Hi, I think it would be brilliant if we could see in 'real-time' a graphical overview of which package/site servers need replication to become up to date and in addition their organisational layout. In most cases they have block out settings applied, and it would nice to see when they start communicating again, or from a troubleshooting point of view, we could instantly see which package/site servers have lost thier sync with the NS Server. Currently this is quite a manual, long winded ...

I suspect I'm not alone in this...Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2/Core are definitely on our short-term radar.  What is a bit of a longer-term upgrade is NS7/CMS7/LSS/RS7.  We're going to need support for Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 in NS6.  Hopefully the underlying OS architectures of Win7 and Server 2008R2 (GUI mode) is close enough to Vista that it would not be a monumental effort to make the NS6 Altiris Agent ...

Hello, Except I miss something or trip/trick for this, we can not capture a new layer or update an existing, if this layer has a "high" dependency to another. eg. if you create a layer for your SQL express, and you want to create another layer for your DS installation: You need the SQL running, to install your DS. But you cannot do that because to capture a "new application", you must deactivate ALL your existing layers ! I also try to create an "empty layer", ...

how about adding some of the more commonly used tech terms to the forum spell check dictionary?  words like "unicast" "multicast" and product names like "altiris"  "backupexec" and things like that.

Prelude Initially, I wrote this about Backup Exec, because that's where I ran into this problem. I'm also a SAV & SEP veteran but don't recall seeing this heinous language in their KB articles. So maybe it's a Veritas thing. But, whatever... ...then it occurred to me that while BE may (or may not) be the only Symantec enterprise product to which the symptom applies, the cure is universal. Because it bridges a huge gap between the goals of Symantec Sales, Support, ...

A lot of people create custom reports that could be useful to other people, but it is difficult to find them on Connect.  When someone creates a report and puts it on Connect, they could be tested and approved by Symantec and then added to a specific location that could then be accessed from the NS Console.  This would be an easy way to share "good" reports and could save time for a lot of us.  You would also know what kind of reports people are needing and they ...

Some products that may be discovered by our inventory scans may be malware, key loggers, known vulnerabilities etc.  Symantec already do a lot of work in this area and could probably come up with a list of things that you don’t want to see on your computer.  I am not just talking viruses here because that is obviously the job of an anti virus product, I am talking about the products that fall into that grey area where it is not a virus however it could have some ...